Pastors Discuss Elephant in the Room Pastors and Bible workers from across the Upper Columbia Conference (UCC) met recently to talk about the proverbial elephant in the room. The issue at hand is that many churches across North America are stagnant if not slowly dying.According to Ge... Read more
Small Church Reaches Kids for Jesus Where do you begin when your church hasn’t held a Vacation Bible School (VBS) for more than 12 years? Where do you find the leadership, the program resources and materials needed? That’s what the Irrigon (Ore.) Church had to wrestle with last July... Read more
Uniformed Master Guides Take Over Pasco Riverview Church The Pasco (Wash.) Riverview Church service was led by the Pathfinder Master Guide class on Sabbath, March 10.A highlight was a speaking choir, focusing on celebrating Jesus’ soon return. The morning message included more than 100 pictures of Earth... Read more
UCA Students Benefit from TIP Program Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) in Spangle, Wash., is preparing to enter its third year of the Tuition Incentive Plus (TIP) program. The program is designed to make Adventist education more affordable for families after students have outgrown their l... Read more
Youth Mission Adventure to Guatemala The Upper Columbia Conference (UCC) youth mission trip to Guatemala was about more than just building a church and holding some meetings for the people of Poptun. Mission trips are about people and their relationships with God. Some would say the ... Read more
Palisades Seventh Graders on Secret Mission Showing God's Love The seventh-grade Bible class of Palisades Christian Academy (Spokane, Wash.) went on a secret mission for God during Valentine's week in February. After studying about getting to know who God is and how much He loves them, students began a missio... Read more
Sunnyside Celebrates Two Baptisms Maggie Ramirez came to the Sunnyside (Wash.) Church for a cooking class more than two years ago. Then more recently she took Bible studies from the church's Bible-worker, Dale Cordes. With Cordes' patient guidance, Ramirez realized she needed to b... Read more
Kids Do the Work of Angels at County Food Bank "Our kids are amazing," says Barc Seibly, Clarkston (Wash.) Good News Fellowship member, whenever he speaks of the help provided by Beacon Christian School (Lewiston, Idaho) students to the Asotin County Food Bank in Clarkston.Seibly and Vern Dimk... Read more
Upper Columbia Christian Men's Summit Features Prayer and Reconciliation The subject of reconciliation in Christ drew the men of Upper Columbia Conference to this year's Christian Men's Summit.Charles "Charlie" Brown, Adventist Reconciliation Services founder and experienced pastor, gave four presentations and many inf... Read more
